This week, the President talks about an important policy change on immigration that more closely aligns our policy with our values, and traveled to the Group of 20 Summit in Los Cabos, Mexico, to work toward stabilization of the global economy. Fonte: White House
Yesterday, June 20th, the White House Council on Women and Girls hosted a great event celebrating the 40th anniversary of Title IX with dozens of advocates and leaders who are continuing the fight for gender equity in our schools. We were also lucky to have some impressive young women from the Girl Scouts and Girls […]
President Barack Obama, with Education Secretary Arne Duncan, delivers a statement on college affordability and interest rates on student loans, in the East Room of the White House, June 21, 2012. (Official White House Photo by Chuck Kennedy) Time is running out for Congress to take actions to stop the rates on federal student loans […]
Dr. Biden meets Jackie Davis, a new Coyote Logistics employee in the IT Department. Photo courtesy of Coyote Logistics. On Tuesday, I met a group of remarkable community college graduates and business leaders who are on the cutting edge of workforce training. As part of my Community College to Career tour, I visited Coyote Logistics, […]
Last year, Vice President Biden launched the 1is2Many initiative to focus on a troubling fact—women between the ages of 16 and 24 experience the highest rates of relationship violence. Having worked to fight violence against women for almost two decades, the Vice President knew that overall rates of domestic violence have been falling, and he […]
Ed. Note: This live session of Office Hours has concluded. View the full question and answer session below or at Storify.com In a little more than a week, the interest rates on federal student loans are scheduled to double. Unless Congress takes action, around 7.4 million students will rack up an additional $1,000 in debt […]
It’s been 40 years since Title IX evened the playing field for young women and girls in academics and athletics throughout our education system. To celebrate this important milestone and the impact it’s had on countless lives, we asked some female leaders across the Obama Administration to share a favorite picture that expresses how getting […]
We caught Jay Carney — the White House press secretary — on the flight back from Mexico and asked him to give us a bit more analysis about the G20 Summit. The number one topic of conversation, Jay said, was the European economic crisis. Watch the video: Fonte: White House
Today, the Obama administration is offering 39 million acres of the most oil- and gas-rich area of the Gulf of Mexico in order to increase the exploration and production of America’s domestic energy resources. This is a landmark sale – we estimate that up to 1.6 billion barrels of oil and 6.6 trillion cubic feet […]
After two days of policy discussions and meetings with leaders from the world’s major economies, President Obama held a press conference to discuss his takeaways from the G20 Summit. The ongoing economic crisis in Europe was a central focus of the top-level conversations. “[This] has been an opportunity for us to hear from European leaders […]
